[Gllug] Bash scripting question

[Franz Timmer]

On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 18:52 +0100, Dylan wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have the following script fragment:
> 
> tags=( $( vorbiscomment "$1") )
>  for tag in $(seq 0 $((${#tags[@]} - 1)))
>   do
>   echo ${tags[$tag]}
>   done
> 
> which should extract the comments from the filename in $1 into the array 
> $tags. So far so good. Unfortunately I find that the input is split up at 
> spaces and line breaks, meaning that multi-word tags get distributed across 
> more than one array element. Is there a way to get the assignment statement 
> to break the vorbiscomment at line breaks only, or do I need to write a 
> routine to put the broken lines back together?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dylan

it's very difficult to work with a bash-skript. It's better to use perl
(or python). 

Franz Timmer


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